On May 8, from 15:00-17:00 we will be using this portal to broadcast a guest lecture from Mark Mullen titled “The US and Europe in Georgia: The Differences in How They Do Development.”
– And what that means for you as you try to get a job.
Mark Mullen is currently working in Georgia, and has long experience from working in different countries: East Africa working on drought relief, followed by democracy related work for the National Democratic Institute (NDI, www.ndi.org), two years in Palestine, a year in Albania then in 1997 as the head of NDI in Georgia until the Rose Revolution. Mark started the national chapter of Transparency International in Georgia (www.transparency.ge) and is involved in a number of non-profit and for profit and social enterprise in Georgia.
There are many interesting connections between Comdev and Caucasus Studies and something that we plan to explore more through these types of events in the future.
If you would like to join the lecture in person you are welcome on May 8, 15-17,
Citadellsvägen 7 (room 104).
To learn more about the Caucasus Studies at Malmö University please see the program website.
As most ComDev students are well aware, the master programme has during the last year undergone thorough evaluation by the Swedish National Agency for Higher Education (HSV), along with all other educations in the area of Media and Communication at both bachelor and master levels. The focus on this evaluation was the correspondence between learning goals and learning outcomes in the examinations in general and the final Degree Work in particular. Ylva Ekström was assigned to write our so-called self-evaluation and put a lot of effort into this important quality work – and today we received the reward. ComDev is the only programme of twenty-six in the area of Media and Communication in Sweden that has received the highest mark.
We are immensely proud and happy to make this announcement to all current and prospective ComDev students at Malmö University. After twelve years of pioneering development we stand stronger than ever, with increasing numbers of applicants to the programme, and we are eager to continue and expand our work, in collaboration with our regional and international partners, to establish a centre of excellence in Communication for Social Change and Development at Malmö University.
Oscar Hemer (programme coordinator) and the ComDev staff
Youth in Transition is the name of a new collaboration blog project between the School of Arts and Communication (K3) at Malmö University and the Department of Fine and Performing Arts, University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. The purpose of the blog, which was launched in February 2012, is to bring together students and [...]
Comdev gradute Christine Nesbitt has been selected to present her work at an upcoming conference in Durban, South Africa. Much of her concept came from the work she did while writing her Master thesis to complete the Comdev program. The IAMCR 2012 conference is in the middle of July this year. You can read more [...]
Malmö University is a member of SPIDER (The Swedish Program for ICT in Developing Regions) and we have the privilege to offer travel grants to Master level students for doing field work (Degree Project) in developing countries. You can apply for a grant from 15.000 to 25.000 SEK (ca 1.600 to 2.700 €). The project [...]
Comdev professor Oscar Hemer is one of the contributors to the anthology Africa Inside Out – Stories, Tales and Testimonies (UKZN Press), which was launched last week at the Time of the Writer Festival in Durban. The book, edited by South African writer and critic Michael Chapman, is the result of a call sent out [...]
The program for the March 29th seminar is now finalized and up on the Comdev portal. All students are welcomed to join online and all speakers will be broadcast here on the portal. It is a collaboration between the MA in Communication for Development, Malmö University and the MA in Media and Development, Westminster University
Former Comdev student Rasna Warah has been working with a documentary project focused on the relieve efforts in Somalia. See the program Tuesday, March 20th, at 20:30 Swedish time on SVT 2 or go to SVT 2 for a schedule of when the program will be re-played, it might even be possible to watch it [...]
The Russian Communications Association organises for the 6th time an international conference on “Communications in a Changing Society” to take place on 27-29 September 2012 in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russia. The conference aims at uniting researchers from different countries and various domains, of various genres and types of human communication to form a multidisciplinary paradigm of contemporary [...]
When trying to assess our contemporary predicament, the once controversial G-word may be about to be replaced by another elusive concept: Mediatization. The second or third phase of the digital revolution, with its explosion of so-called social media, has made it adamantly clear to us how all sectors of culture and society are saturated with, and increasingly influenced by, mediated communication. Not only politics and the public sphere, but our private lives and everyday experiences are today inseparably entangled with the media.
This is not a “new” phenomenon. It can be traced back all the way to Aristotle’s Poetics, or at least to Marshall McLuhan’s media theory and catchy but obscure conception of the medium as the message… But whereas mediatization used to be largely confined to the global North, or the so-called developed world, and hence not a concern for the traditional field of Communication for Development, it is now truly a global phenomenon, as demonstrated by the ongoing so-called Arabic Spring.
Today’s media environments, in which “old” and “new” media converge in ever changing forms, are both radically transforming the arenas of public opinion and agency – redefining the very concept of a public sphere – and yielding new forms of expression that transgress former genre and media boundaries.